Wilson v. Walther’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the only standing requirements we have imposed in public-funds cases [are] that the plaintiff be a citizen and that he or she have contributed tax money to the general treasury. We have not required the plaintiff to trace his or her individual tax contribution to the tax money that is allegedly being spent in an illegal manner, nor have we required the plaintiff to establish a significant tax contribution to the state treasury. Hence, in public-funds cases we have given the word "interested" as used in article 16, section 13, a very broad construction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Jacksonville v. Smith

2. “[a]s a general rule, appellate courts of this state will not review issues that are moot. Honeycutt v. Foster , 371 Ark. 545 , 548, 268 S.W.3d 875 , 878 (2007). A case becomes moot when any judgment rendered would have no practical legal effect upon a then existing legal controversy. Shipp v. Franklin , 370 Ark. 262 , 267, 258 S.W.3d 744 , 748 (2007).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tegna, Inc. v. Goodson

3. “it is a fundamental canon of construction that when interpreting or construing a statute the court may consider the text as a whole to derive its meaning or purpose. Dolan v. U.S. Postal Serv. , 546 U.S. 481 , 486, 126 S.Ct. 1252 , 163 L.Ed.2d 1079 (2006) ; Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 167 (2012).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Schnarr v. State